Socket cover



Aug. 7, i923. Y 1,464,4@2

M. HERMAN SOCKET COVER Filed June 16 1921 WIT/M3858 MORI@ /SEMAM camaras-med th@ sdy @Ummm by a d@ Seal lim. llw.

l is geld in pasti-ion and Sumpoffi Mig out or in through the notrh lo in the flange 15. This arrangement 1s suclrthat by bring- .ing the projections 17 successively in register with the notch 1G, the cover plate and body portion may be connected together by turning one with relation to the other so as to position the projections 1T out of register with the notches 16, as shown in Figure 2 of the drawing.

It will be` noted that when the parts are coupled together, the overturned flange l5 will be uppermostwhen the socket covers are pendent as they usually are, and thus will be concealed or substantially invisible, and that furthermore the joint, because of the fact that the flange 15 coincides with the outwardly flaring bell portion 2, has the appearance of the `usual langed or overlapping seained joint employed in wnnecting pressed sheet metal parts together.

It will be apparent also that the cover plate may be at all times readily removed and replaced by another when desired and that instead of a cover plate adapted for use with a ball or spherical lamp being substitut/ed, a cover plate such as shown in Figmea/toa ure 5 may be employed, and this may be accomplishedwithout the necessity of removing the connection of the socket cover to the fixture.

-l-laving described my invention, I claim:

l. A socket cover comprising a body portion and a cover pla-te, an inwardly-extending flange on said cover plate arranged to receive the lower end of the body portion, and a detachable connection between the lower end of the body portion and the flange olL the cover plate.

2. A socket cover eoniprisiiig a body portion and a cover plate, the cover plate having an inwardly extending notched `flange and the body portion having projections arranged to engage with the noto-hed flange of the cover plate.

3. A soc-liet cover comprising a body portion and a cover plate, said cover plate provided with an inwardly extending notched fiange andthe body portion having a flange provided with projections, the flange on 'the cover plate embracing the Harige on the body portion.

MORRJS HERMAN. 

